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Posted by tomman
Yet another logo-and-website speculative execution vulnerability that nobody but warfare actors would exploit: Retbleed
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RETBLEED

Mitigating Retbleed in the Linux kernel required a substantial effort, involving changes to 68 files, 1783 new lines and 387 removed lines. Our performance evaluation shows that mitigating Retbleed has unfortunately turned out to be expensive: we have measured between 14% and 39% overhead with the AMD and Intel patches respectively.

I have a word for you security researchers: FUCK OFF.

Seriously, we know, our computers are broken... but nobody is buying ME that supoosedly invulnerable rig, so stay the hell away from making my machines much slower than they already are, all because of theoretic lab attacks that nobody does in real life (no, my machines are not targets for USA/China/Russia despite how much I hate them, thanks).

I'm starting to seriously hate security researchers with a passion. Go hack a Playstation or something actually useful!

Posted by tomman

- Gamedevs fixations over MS-specific shinies (DX12+ being the main one), instead of going with cross-platform standards... wait, at this stage, OpenGL/Vulkan are getting confined to Linux, as Apple opted out of those years ago, and consoles have been always on their own separate leagues.

Posted by tomman
You're still limited by the SATA port speeds, and in sequential reads the difference between a HDD and SSD is minimal, but sequential reads are not the most usual operation your OS will do everyday.